[Editor's Note: I chuckled when I heard front man puppet George
W. Bush definitively declare in his second 'debate' with Illuminated puppet
John Kerry that there was going to be NO new draft. Here we have a guy (
or should I say the human clone of the guy who used to exist as
GW Bush ) who continuously lies with the greatest expression of demeanor
that attempts to convey conviction and sincerity with every distortion and
confabulation that passes his lips, telling us that we have nothing to worry
about when it comes to a draft. Why would anyone in their right mind believe
this clone? In the entire 230 year history of the United States, there has
never been a president that has had his name included on the front cover
of more books coupled with the words 'Lies" or "Liar' in the title.
Why would any intelligent person trust anything he had to say?...Ken]

Of all the articles I’ve published in the Federal Observer, the two
that keep getting hits and comments are, “There Is No Terrorist Threat”
and, “Will Bush Reinstate The Draft?” Of the two, the latter
has gotten more hits and comments recently than I ever expected, considering
I wrote that piece back in July of last year. Apparently, it really hit
a nerve with a lot of young voters.

We denizens of the Cyberspace Blog community know how easily
false rumors get started and how easily those fake rumors get legs. We also
know by experience just how fragile those hoaxes are when challenged with
common sense.

The “Million man Chinese army waiting to pounce across
the border from Mexico” hoax is a prime example. Once people were
made to consider the logistical requirements of such a “stealth”
invasion, such as bathroom accommodations, housing, food, clothing, entertainment,
zero witnesses coming in illegally from Mexico, etc., etc., you folks realized
just how preposterous that hoax was, and I hope you made note of the writers
promoting it for future reference. If those writers are going to promote
such nonsense, they deserve to have lost all credibility with their former
readers.

Which brings us to the purported “hoax” involving
the threatened reinstatement of the military draft. The mainstream media
is calling it a hoax. The House of Representatives just yesterday
voted down a bill introduced by Representative Rangel, 402 – 2, that
would reinstate the draft. The editorial pages of every newspaper
are carrying opinions that largely debunk the draft “rumor”
as a hoax. So is the rumored reinstatement of the military draft really
just a hoax?

In a word, NO; absolutely NOT!

The very worst we can call this fear is speculation, but it
is speculation based upon real, hard facts, and the major reason this particular
fear continues to get young people motivated to register to vote at such
an astonishing rate is the fact that no one is offering a believable reason
to doubt it.

Insisting that reinstatement of the draft is not a current
option for any politician hoping to stay in office just doesn’t cut
it. Insisting we have enough personnel in the military to make the draft
unnecessary is simply not convincing when concurrent mainstream news tells
us that recruitment is down for both the regular army as well as the National
Guard. Those baseless arguments are not convincing when a guy like retired
Col. David Hackworth report that thousands of his active duty military readers,
now serving in Iraq, are vowing never to re-enlist again. The pipeline of
personnel is drying up at the pump, and the personnel leaving the other
end of the pipeline are vowing not to return. Which part of that don’t
you get??

To even the most casual observer, we’ve got a major
military personnel crisis looming just over the horizon of November 2, 2004,
and that’s where the politicians want to keep it if they can. But
they can’t, they haven’t and they won’t. The problem with
their specious denials is two-fold.

First, the lack of recruitment, and threat of current military
personnel voting with their feet, means that the reassurances by the politicians
just don’t add up. Even more obvious, the call-up of the so-called
“Ready Reserves” is tantamount to scraping the bottom of the
available soldier barrel. What happens when we need more soldiers after
that call-up? Hmm? Give it a moment: This is the Carl Worden Intelligence
Test, and I doubt you’ll fail it.

Secondly, the credibility of this administration and politicians
on both sides of the aisle is just about zero right now with the young kids
of draft age – and their parents and grandparents who went through
the Viet Nam War era. We got into the Iraq war because we were told by George
W. Bush, et al., that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction and intended
to use them imminently on the United States and our allies, like Israel.
We now know it was all a fat lie at worst, or a big boo-boo at best.

It doesn’t matter to most of us if Bush got bad intelligence
reports or if he made it all up. What matters is Bush got it wrong, and
over 1050 American soldiers are dead, with around 7,000-8,000 more maimed.
Those of us who care, also deeply regret that our Congress’ and President’s
actions caused the needless deaths and maiming of tens of thousands of non-combatant
Iraqi citizens in the process. If Bush can get something as wrong as that,
couldn’t he also be “wrong” about the need for a military
draft? I can hear the shouts all over America, “Hell yes, he can get
it wrong!” And he probably is.

Apparently the young people aren’t going to take a chance
on Bush and Congress being “wrong” again. Last time I checked,
groups like, “Rock The Vote” are getting 40,000 hits a day for
voter registration forms, and I’m going to predict a massive shock
to pollsters and politicians alike on November 2nd. That’s why Congress
put on that phony - baloney show yesterday of voting Rangel’s draft
reinstatement bill down. They see the writing on the wall -- it’s
a nasty voter backlash second to none -- and they didn’t see it coming
before about 10 days ago. You can bet backsides are puckering all over Capitol
Hill right now.

Look, Bush couldn’t have proceeded to attack Iraq without
Congress’ illegally giving him their power to declare war. It is my
understanding that John Kerry and John Edwards both voted for the constitutionally
illegal “resolution” to give the President the green light to
wage war if he thought it necessary. The Constitution doesn’t allow
that, so before any of us point the finger only at Bush and his regime,
we must remember Congress’ part in all of this mess, and that is why
we also cannot trust Congress when they insist the draft is not an option.
In truth, the draft has always been an option.

The law requiring those of age to register for the draft has
never been repealed. Draft Boards can be re-activated overnight. The only
thing keeping the military draft from remaining dormant to going full activation
is a “National Emergency”, and with the way we’ve made
such great friends in the Middle East and elsewhere, coupled with the fact
our former allies don’t want to have to help clean up Bush’s
mess, we might very well just have one – and have to fight it all
by ourselves…

In point of fact, those claiming the draft is not an option
are liars. Whereas reactivation of the draft at some predicted point in
the future might be speculation, the draft of our young citizens is, and
has always been, an option. That’s why the young voters of America
are mobilized, as they damn well should be: This time it could mean their
very lives.

Carl F. Worden

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